Curing Our Hospitals

To keep patients safe, we must transform the quality of our healthcare system


http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/opinion/edit-page/Curing-our-hospitals/articleshow/12189373.cms

"The scale of this quality problem is enormous even in high-end urban medical centres, leave alone rural health clinics. Inappropriate treatment, malpractice, excessive use of certain procedures and negligence are rampant."

-The Times of India, March 9, 2012

Healthcare is a right government cannot ignore

The editorial takes a critical view of the planning commission picking holes in the Srinath Reddy committee report on the healthcare needs of the people. Stressing for the need of healthcare to be as much public controlled as possible, the editorial notes that scams in ill-conceived projects like NHRM cannot be held as a reason for privatizing health sector, which doesn't happen even in many developed countries.
http://expressbuzz.com/opinion/editorials/healthcare-is-a-right-government-cannot-ignore/366402.html

Regulating hospitals is healthy

"The proposed enhancement of public health expenditure in India as a percentage of GDP during the Twelfth Plan will deploy massive tax funds in a sector that is poorly regulated. There will be an estimated five-fold increase in per capita public spending. It is inevitable that private health infrastructure is tapped to provide Universal Health Coverage, at least in the short term, while the government-run system is improved qualitatively and quantitatively. "

The Hindu : Opinion / Editorial : Regulating hospitals is healthy: Such a massive increase in public spending requires a review of regulation of the entire sector, covering all categories of hospitals and clinical establishments.

Achieving high standards in healthcare and empowerment of patients is not possible without standard-setting and strong regulation.

Laissez faire cannot deliver.

Four People's Principles

"Only modern science can solve the many problems that India's masses face."

The Hindu : Opinion / Lead : Four People's Principles

Today India faces huge problems; only science can solve them. Some 80 per cent of its people live in poverty, with unemployment, sky-rocketing prices, problems of healthcare, education and housing, and so on. Forty-eight farmers commit suicide on an average each day. And 47 per cent of the children are malnourished. Our national aim must be to abolish these evils and make India prosperous for all.

To address the problems, Markandey Katju presents Four People's Principles (following Sun Yat Sen's Three People's Principles).

"These should be our guiding principles: Science, Democracy, Livelihood, and Unity of the People."

Medicines for all

The Hindu : Opinion / Editorial : Medicines for all